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keilissDay 8. In your own space, post self-recs for at least three fanworks that you created. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
When I've done this prompt before I've chosen fics that taught me something about writing or that posed special problems or challenges or -- whatever. Tonight I couldn't think what to pick and went through Ao3, looking in on fics I've not read in ages, collecting links. These are the ones that spoke to me loudest. No particular reason, just - they're me.
Burning Bright: The Road
The outbreak of war in Eregion and the hiding of the rings of power as experienced by a musician, a lord with an agenda set beyond the sea, an exiled Noldorin princess and an elf with an uneasy conscience. Cameos by Durin the Deathless, Ereinion Gil-galad, Celebrimbor, and Annatar the Giver of not always welcome Gifts..
I wrote this one NaNo. Writing it was easy, it was a story that had waited at least three years for me to find a way into and it knew where it was going. Editing the mess into the final draft though, that was HELL. Now, I am proud of what this became.
Secret Garden
A chain of mysterious events lead Erestor and Elladan to Mirkwood in search of answers. There they and Gildor face deadly danger that has nothing to do with orcs or giant spiders.
With more than a passing nod to Chris Carter's incomparable X-Files.
This was an OEAM Big Bang fic. Binky gave me the core of the idea but it took on its own life and I have no idea where the rest of it came from, or what possessed me in the little prequel to write Erestor/Elladan, or how their chemistry worked so damn well or - anything about this. Anyhow mystery, danger, some action, man-eating plants..... Maybe read the prequel first.
Star's End
Maglor meets Arwen on the road to Lórien after Aragorn's death
What it says on the tin. And I did not know it was going to end as it did until I'd written it, looked at what I'd typed, and went "......... oh." Maglor, first person. He is the only one I write in first person. He prefers that.
Sanctuary
I have decided that every time I get asked to rec one of my fics, I will include this because it was wonderful to write (and research and find pictures for) and the only place it ever got any attention was on MPTT. It's elves in modern times -- some of them never left, some of them were reborn and allowed to come back, no I don't know how that worked - but now they all finally have to leave because the Straight Way is closing. And Glorfindel has vanished. So Gil-galad, Erestor and Elrond go on a South African road trip to find him.
Even Quicker Than Doubt
Set in the weeks before Elros departs for Númenor, Doubt explores the reason the twins chose different paths, Elrond’s emotional coming of age, and the evolving relationship between Gil-galad and Glorfindel.
It's old, yes. I see I finished it in 2006. I had only been writing fanfiction for about six months when I started it and the first eight or nine chapters could use a thorough edit, but then the heart would be lost and the heart is everything in this story, so no. All this time later, I still love these people and this world so much.
When I've done this prompt before I've chosen fics that taught me something about writing or that posed special problems or challenges or -- whatever. Tonight I couldn't think what to pick and went through Ao3, looking in on fics I've not read in ages, collecting links. These are the ones that spoke to me loudest. No particular reason, just - they're me.
Burning Bright: The Road
The outbreak of war in Eregion and the hiding of the rings of power as experienced by a musician, a lord with an agenda set beyond the sea, an exiled Noldorin princess and an elf with an uneasy conscience. Cameos by Durin the Deathless, Ereinion Gil-galad, Celebrimbor, and Annatar the Giver of not always welcome Gifts..
I wrote this one NaNo. Writing it was easy, it was a story that had waited at least three years for me to find a way into and it knew where it was going. Editing the mess into the final draft though, that was HELL. Now, I am proud of what this became.
Secret Garden
A chain of mysterious events lead Erestor and Elladan to Mirkwood in search of answers. There they and Gildor face deadly danger that has nothing to do with orcs or giant spiders.
With more than a passing nod to Chris Carter's incomparable X-Files.
This was an OEAM Big Bang fic. Binky gave me the core of the idea but it took on its own life and I have no idea where the rest of it came from, or what possessed me in the little prequel to write Erestor/Elladan, or how their chemistry worked so damn well or - anything about this. Anyhow mystery, danger, some action, man-eating plants..... Maybe read the prequel first.
Star's End
Maglor meets Arwen on the road to Lórien after Aragorn's death
What it says on the tin. And I did not know it was going to end as it did until I'd written it, looked at what I'd typed, and went "......... oh." Maglor, first person. He is the only one I write in first person. He prefers that.
Sanctuary
I have decided that every time I get asked to rec one of my fics, I will include this because it was wonderful to write (and research and find pictures for) and the only place it ever got any attention was on MPTT. It's elves in modern times -- some of them never left, some of them were reborn and allowed to come back, no I don't know how that worked - but now they all finally have to leave because the Straight Way is closing. And Glorfindel has vanished. So Gil-galad, Erestor and Elrond go on a South African road trip to find him.
Even Quicker Than Doubt
Set in the weeks before Elros departs for Númenor, Doubt explores the reason the twins chose different paths, Elrond’s emotional coming of age, and the evolving relationship between Gil-galad and Glorfindel.
It's old, yes. I see I finished it in 2006. I had only been writing fanfiction for about six months when I started it and the first eight or nine chapters could use a thorough edit, but then the heart would be lost and the heart is everything in this story, so no. All this time later, I still love these people and this world so much.
